From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2008-04-01T05:23:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Make Soap Body tag self closing?

jammendolia wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I posted this question last week in the soap4r group but haven't
> received any replies. So I'm hoping maybe someone here can help.
> 
> My situation is this; I 've generated the default/driver/
> mappingRegistry using wsdl2ruby for a client that will consume .Net
> web service
> 
> I have created a customized SOAP::Filter::Handler that takes care of
> assigning the soap: namespace to the elements, and I've created a
> customized SOAP::Header::Handler that takes care of the custom auth
> header elements. So far, so good.
> 
> I've compared the generated request between a working .Net client and
> my ruby client, and they are virtually identical with one exception;
> for the initial authentication call (e.g. signon), there is no payload
> in the soap:Body. The .Net client generates this empty body as
> <soap:Body/> (self closing) whereas the ruby version generates
> <soap:Body></soap:Body>.
> 
...

> So, my question is; Is there any way to override the default behavior
> in soap4r to make it render the empty body with a self closing tag
> (<soap:Body/>)?
> 

A hack: take the final XML and do a string substitution.

final_xml.sub!( '<soap:Body></soap:Body>', '<soap:Body/>')


untested, YMMV, etc.



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James Britt

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